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"1000 Door --4 To Open Them In Case Of Fire!
Behind these figures is one reason for the long-stands ing fight between the backers of the merit law and po-
By NORMAN E. ISAACS FORTY-SEVEN DEAD in an Oregon insane hospital tragedy. And there—but for the grace of God—is Indiana. At Central State Hospital for the Insane right here in Indianapolis there are 1000 locked doors every mornIng between the hours of 5 and 6—and perhaps at other ~ hours, too—with only four persons to unlock those doors holding in 1000 insane men and women in case of a fire! No, Indiana has not yet faced a tragedy of the Oregon proportions, there Have been no food poisonings. But Indiana faces a tragedy just as great in the exodus of employees from state institutions because of
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low wages, long hours, intolerable working conditions, and overloading of work. There are eight institutions for the insane? the feebleminded and the epileptics in the state. At this moment there are 12,874 inmates of these eight institutions and at one of these hospitals—the Muscatatuck State School for the Feeble-Minded at Butlerville—patients have frequently been used as helpers because of the shortage of trained personnel. At Central State hospital here, many of the employees work for as little as $55 a month, with $25 a month deducted for maintenance! That means $30 a month in cash!
Maintenance which includes commodes—no flushing toilets! Maintenance which means 2at an employee many times cannot use the room he is charged for because it is being used by another employee! There are 160-odd attendants to care for the 2124 patients at Central. Thirty-three receive $60 a month, less $25 maintenance; 54 of them receive $65; 29 receive $70 and 46 are paid $75 a month. Not a single cne is
rated at the $80 maximum fixed by the state personnel board. +
WASHINGTON
A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—Next immediate war aim: Conquering the U-boat menace. . Problems of increased troop movements, and supplies for our men overseas as well as for other united nations fronts, loom large for winter months.
Operations in North Africa have already helped. Safe passage for united nations ships in Mediterranean shortens supply routes so much |
that our cargo-carrying capacity is increased approximately 50 per cent. But more must be done. Also high on 1843's must list: Reopening the Burma road. Increased deliveries to China and Russia play an important part in plans for world-wide united nations offensive. ‘n s ” n u Little- publicized but important victory: Ninety of oyr light tanks went through a month on the Libyan battlefront with only 12 minor ‘mechanical failures. ? In contrast, captured German documents show 44 out of 65 Mark III tanks failed after desert crossing. ” » =
Some More Inflation Worries
THOSE RESPONSIBLE for preventing inflation worry because much of treasury’s October bond offering was subscribed by commercial banks—thus expanding bank credit. Future issues may have higher interest rates in effort to attract money from other sources, cut down inflationary buying of goods. Another source of worry: Most of October bonds went to New York and Chicago federal reserve! districts. 2 8 = a » =» RAILROADS ARE OVER the hump of record-breaking freight movements for this year, but they just did make it; they wonder what they'll do next year; when new and higher peak is expected. The 56,000 cars built this year won't be enough, they say. WPB hears they must have more cars, locomotives, maintenance of existing equipment. REASON: Freight traffic is up 32 per cent over, 1941. It has been managed through heavier loading, longer hauls, speeding up unloading time. Hump in passenger traffic is still to come. It's up 75 per cent this ! , Year already. Forty per cent of all sleeping cars, 15 per cent of coaches, _ mow held for troop movements. But look for this te increase in December and January despite yearning of civilians for holiday travel. ” ” s o » #
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Allies Bottle Up Vast Area
BIZERTE-TUNIS SEEN AS DEATH TRAP FOR AXIS
Of Mediterranean With Mine Fields.
By EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 21. — The final phase of the battle of North Africa
apeared to be approaching today | with allied columns driving against thie small but strongly held axis bridgehead in Tunisia and the imperial 8th: army driving toward a decisive battle with the remnants of the Afrika Korps at El Aghelia. Allied commanders believed the time was nearing to force the axis mto “an African Dunkirk.”
to sever axis supply and transport cominunications with Spain and the Balearic islands by sowing mines over a wide area.
In the Mediterranean the admir- : alty reported that it had taken steps|g
what's cookin’ at the school. ' The
Yards of News for Boys in Service
long letter goes out to about 350 former pupils whose addresses have
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Showdown Is Near
Reports from African field commanders indicated the showdown for the axis was drawing near both in Tunisia and Libya. The allied columns in ‘Tunisia were roughly 25 miles from both Bizerte and Tunis and closing in rapidly. Another small Nazi garrison | was believed encircled at
Gabes| on the Tunisia east coast. The! Germans still were rushing
in guns, tanks and men across the| 90 miles from Sicily and it. was Army Seeks | expected that a hard fight would ‘be required to drive them from | bridgehead. However, the British, American and French forces in Tunisia were reported considerably, superior to those of the
yards of mimeographed letters.
Cause for Electrocution of Men
Working on Sewer. (Photos, Page Three)
been turned in to school officials. Looking over the copy is (front row, left to right) Constance Kakavecos, freshman, and Helen Katterhenry, a senior; (rear row, left to right) Robert Flum, a senior; Robert Marendt, a senior and Eskell Jones a junior,
About 800 pupils contribute toward the expenses of the
The Cheetah Chews His Beef
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As Court Hears 'Beef' on Will
Miss Clara Miller of: New York City, niece of the dead woman, asked for an examination of Swezey in court. She was bequeathed” $6000. Swezey said Miss Miller brought the animals with her from France, that the villa has been looted and shelled and is practically worthless, that the cheetah—a large
NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., Nov. 21 (U. P.).—Two of the wealthiest animals in the world—a 15-year-old cheetah and 12-year-old dog— ate large quantities of the finest cuts of beef today while a dispute over their inheritance raged in surrogate’s zourt. The two pets were bequeathed $70,000 in cash and stocks plus a
litical leaders.
The personnel board has made repeated requests to
the state budget committee for a $10 increase in institutional wages—a request tiiat has been sidestepped by
the budget committee.
Two hospitals in the state have made an attempt to follow the merit principle thoroughly and these two ine stitutions—the Richmond State Hospital for the Insane
and the Logansport State Hospital for the Insane—are the (Continued on Page Two)
AT FIRES IN TURIN
WREAK
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on Bizerte-Tunis and Gabes in Tunisia; royal air force hits Turin| with strongest attack on Italy of: war; waters off Spain and Balearics mined; Pierre Laval edges France toward military partner-| ship with Germany.
ROME—British attack causes immense damage at Turin.
CAIRO—8th army occupies Benghazi, advance guard hits Nazis at. Agebabia; heavily raided.” °
ANKARA—Large Nazi air reinforcements reported moving to Sicily.
MOSCOW — Russian front more quiet; Nazis and Rumanians lose heavily southeast of Nalchik.
GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS—Heavy fighting in BunaGona area.
2-WAY ATTACK ON JAPS LOOMS
LONDON —Allied columns close in
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Fiat Works Target In Greatest Raid On Italy.
LONDON, Nov. 21 (U. P.). —The royal air force dumped 108 tons of block-busters and 55 tons of incendiary bombs in their record-breaking .attack on Turin last night, it was revealed today. This huge weight of 4000-pound bombs was dropped by a single
Sicily _airdromes! pomper group. participating in. the.
attack which was the heaviest ever launched at Italy. The entire load of bombs fell on Turin’s big factories, the Fiat works, royal arsenal, warehouses and oil depots in a little less than an hour, starting huge fires which sent smoke 8000 feet into the air.
Drop All Bombs in Hour
The British bombers carried 54 of the two-ton block busters, it was revealed, and 110,000 pounds of incendiaries. “These bombs were dropped in just under one hour,” it was said. “That is at the rate of one twotonner per minute and one 30-pound incendiary per second.” The huge RAF armada encount-
oo {ered Nazi night fighters all along Successes in Solomons and |
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axis. | In the east the allied offensive was moving with equal speed.
A board of inquiry appointed by| the U. S. army engineers headquarters, at Louisville arrived at
were fought off over the French coast, then, across France the big bombers, encountered Nazi inter-
New Guinea Basis for U. S. Offensive.
leopard-like animal—eats three pounds of meat a day and has to have a man at $25 a week to
villa in Monte Carlo by their misress, Miss Elizabeth Miller, 60, who died near here last Aug. 3.
attle for Economic Rule GOVERNMENT AGENCIES in Washington fight among them-
lves over assuming economic powers in the occupied regions, as our y marches to victory in Africa. Wallace's board of economic warfare contends it should have juris- . diction over trade and financial deals in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia. Hopkins’ lend-lease claims it. So does state department. And the army, ‘already on the ground, wants others to keep hands off, let the military run the whole show, ” ” EJ ” ” ” Discount talk about Wendell Willkie trying to form a third party in 1944. He's had a thorough examination made of election laws in every state; found that various restrictions imposed doom third- -party movements to failure. : ®. nn "8 =n Automobile companies are quietly working on revolutionary new models, hope now to have them ready for mass production when war ends. y Note: Some businessmen now gamble” on peace in 18 months. Washington doesn’t encourage this. = 4 »
Gas Ration Delay Doomed
LAST- MINUTE effort by house bloc to hold up netiors wide gasoline rationing is destined to get nowhere. More than half the house members have gone home again, leaders won't call them back. Anti-rationers know they can't win, are making their record for (Continued on Page Two)
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Coffee Sales Halt for Week
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The coffee front: Indianapolis stores stop selling coffee at midnight tonight to give storekeepers one week to stock their ‘shelves for the start of rationing Nov, 29. - Indianapolis restaurants, hotels and institutions will curtail their consumption of coffee by about the same percentage as the individual consumer. They will receive from their rationing boards allotments for Nev. - 22 to Jan. 31 the same as they had for September and October, which will mean they will have to serve in
had for 61 days. The September and October amount was only 65 per cent of that of the corresponding months in 1941. The rationing to homes will be on the basis of one pound every -five weeks for each person over 15 years of age. Rationing will mean a 38 per cent cut in sales of coffee to the 80 per cent of the aduly population who
drink jt and have made it the national beverage. But Americans will still drink much more coffee than Europeans, who generally get only an ersatz concoction of acorns and grains. The rationing program was necessitated by a cut of 25 per cent in coffee imports since Pearl Harbor. Ships formerly plying the coffee houte between the United States and South America now are carrying bauxite ores for aluminium or have been transferred to routes to Britain, Africa, Rusisa and other fighting fronts. Coffee to be rationed includes all roasted coffee whether ground or the bean, as well as decaffeinat products and those mixed with chicory, or other substitutes. Consumers will not be permitted to buy green or unroasted coffe and home roasting is out. Varieties of “instant” coffee are not rationed. War ration book number one,
the L. Strauss & Co. play-by- -play
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British advance guards were fighting the rearguard of Marshal Erwin Rommel at Agedabia and were moving toward El Aghelia 70 miles farther southwest where it was expected the Nazis would attempt a stand. Benghazi, capital of Cyrenaica, was entered by the British without a single shot being fired, Cairo reports said. Warning that all Mediterranean (¢ ontinued on Page Tw)
WAR BOND PLEDGES 10 WIN FOOTBALLS
2 Signed Pigskins Offered. At Indiana-Purdue Game.
The | traditional’ Indiana-Purdue rival'y was: carried into the sténds at Lafayette this afiernoon when alumni associations of the two schools compete for autographed footballs through war bond
Stout fie this afternoon to in-
which two workmen were electro-
four others shocked.
boom on a crane came in contact with a 4000-volt power line near Tibbs ave. and Raymond st., where 4 sewer is being constructed for Stout field. The dead were: ROBERT E. GRAMMER, 51, R.R. 10, Box 232-C, superintendent for the Sheehan Construction Co. WILLIAM COLE, 40, of 1550 N. Arsenal ave., Negro employee of the company. The injured were: FRANK GAZVODA, 58, of 3338 W. 10th st, also an employee of the company, burns and shock; in Methodist hospital.
HARRY KNOTE, 42, Marion, Ind. burned hands a3d shock; in Methodist hospital. HOWARD GILBERT, 34, of 2451 N. Rural st., Negro, shock. JOHN J. LOEHR, a U. S. army engineer, suffered from shock but was back to work today. The accident occurred when the workmen for the construction company were laying a concrete drainage pipe which connected to Stout field and ran along side of the new No. 5 Allison plant. Mr. Knote, the crane operator, said he had moved it forward so that the workmen could fasten the (Continued on Page Two)
NOTRE DAME ATOM SMASHER DAMAGED
SOUTH BEND, Ind. Nov. 21 (U. P.).—Prof. Bernard Waldman of the Notre Dame physics department said today the university's 3,000,000volt atom-smashing electrostatic generator was damaged by an unexplained fire yesetrday but would be ready for renewal of experiments in about two weeks. The generator, constructed at an estimated cost of between $50,000 and $75,000 two years ago, burst into flames during an experiment, Prof. Waldman said. x
Two footballs, signed by players auctioned off in connection with
broadcast of the game over WFBM. Alumni association chapters selling the most war bonds will receive the footballs a few days after the game. All groups must fulfill bond
Alumni associations were to report pledges to WFBM, LI-8506, and they were relayed to Bert Wilson who announced them during the game,
WORKER IS INJURED AT CURTISS-WRIGHT
Earl Carver, 1821 W. Washington st., received a severe scalp wound today when a piece’ of angle iron fell from a scaffold and struck him on the head while he was working at ‘the Curtiss-Wright Corp. building on W. Morris st. Mr. Carver was taken to the Methodist hospital. He is employed by the Johan Ryan Construction Co.
vestigate an accident yesterday in
watch him.
She specified in her will that the It was indicated that some
money was to be used for their
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amicable arrangement, possibly a 50-50 division of the estate— would be made after the animals die.
‘Don't Worry, Ma,
I'm in Solomons’
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 21 (U. P.). —In letters to her son stationed “somewhere overseas” with the marines, Mrs. Louise Petrilli expressed the fear that he was in Egypt. After a six-month silence, Pvt. Herman Petrilli wrote to his mother to relieve her worries: “Tell the folks that everything is all right and that I am aot in Egypt. IT am stationed at Guadalcanal, which is one of the islands in the Solomons group. I do hope that this will relieve all of you at home a great deal.”
JAPANESE STRIKE IN ARIZONA CAMP
POSTON, Ariz., Nov. 21 (U. P.).—
care. On their death the legacy, according to the will, goes to Robert Swezey, counsel to Miss Miller.
RUSSIANS ADVANGE IN NALCHIK AREA
Smash 22 Rumanian Tanks, Kill 600 Germans.
MOSCOW, Nov. 21 (U. P.).—The Russians routed several Rumanian battalions southeast of Nalchik and destroyed 22 tanks, and, clearing the enemy from a height in that area, killed 600 Germans,
The German forces routed on the approaches of Ordzhonikidze in the central Caucasus and falling back upon Nalchik were throwing Rumanian Alpine forces into futile counter-attacks. In smashing these counter-attacks, dispatches said, the Russians had routed several Rumanian battalions, which suffered
fearful losses, both in men and material. The Germans, who had lost 20,000 to 25,000 killed and wounded, were trying to stop . their retreat, but Soviet progress was steady.
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Authorities learned today that the probable cause of a general strike at the large Japanese relocation center here was the filing of charges of attempted murder against a wrestler at the. camp. For the fourth straight day, the 8500 members of the colony refused to perform their assigned work.
MONTAGUE WILL BE SHERIFF'S DEPUTY
Sheriff-elect Otto W. Petit today
named Stanton S. Montague, 602 W. 31st st., to serve as chief deputy sheriff when he takes office Jan. 1. Mr. Montague, an accountant, is employed by the Standard Grocery Co. He will have charge of the sheriff's office in the court house.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (U. P.). —A two-pronged allied offensive
against the Japanese in the Southwest Pacific: soon may be possible as a result of successes in the Solomons and on New Guinea. Such an offensive was envisaged today by military experts who hold that the islands provide ideal advance bases from which the united nations could tighten a vise on some of Japan’s most important positions in that area. The American hold on the southeastern Solomons has been greatly strengthened by the shattering defeat of the Japanese fleet last weekend and increasing successes of U. S. marines and army troops on ‘Guadalcanal. On New Guinea, allied forces are pressing their attacks on the main Jap bases with heavy fighting now in progress in the Gona-Buna area.
Elimination of Japan's hold on New Guinea would free the allies for an eventual drive on Rabaul, key Jap position of New Britain island. Secretary of the Navy Knox revised Japanese losses in the Solomons naval battle upward to 28 ships sunk and 10 damaged and said
ception attempts. However, the Germans were said to have had little success. One pilot who arrived over Turin about half an hour after the initial planes had bonibed the city said that there was “a colossal blaze” from a group of buildings which appeared to be warehouses. A Lancaster pilot who circled lower over Turin said that quanti ties of thick black oil smoke from ‘blazing refineries or storage tanks were encountered.
Damage ‘Immense’
The British planes made an ale most uninterrupted procession over Turin and late arriving planes found it difficult to take careful aim due to the smoke clouds. The Italian high command, in its daily communique, called the dame« age “immense.” (In describing the damage, the far bulletin used the words “in-
Jap Losses Increased Jgenti danne”—one of the strongest
adjectives in Italian.) It reported 29 civilian deaths and said 120 persons were injured. + (CBS in New York heard a British broadcast that when King Vice tor Emanuel went to see the
after earlier British raids, he was
bombed area of (Genoa and Milan
America’s hold on Guadalcanal is “now very secure.”
island smashed a threat to their eastern flank by wiping out about 750 of a force of 1500 enemy troops which were landed east of Henderson field on the night of Nov. 2-3.
greeted with cries of “peace!” and that the demonstrations in Milan led to the dismissal of the city’s
rmy troops on the Marines and army Pp governor.)
had made a daylight raid on ground targets in German-occupied northe ern France, Belgium and Holland
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late yesterday at the cost of one plane,
DISPOSAL OF TIRES DELAYED TO DEC. 1
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (U. P) —The deadline for disposal of “idle* tires today was postponed from Nov. 22 to Dec. 1, the date sched= uled for the start of nationwide gasoline rationing. Possession of tires in excess of five per car, with one additional for each running wheel of trailers or similar equipment, will be illegal after the first of next month under
gasoline rationing’
SHOPPING DAYS LEFT To PICK OUT THAT WRIST-
WATCH FOR THE yr LITTLE WOMAN
Fighter planes of the royal air force army co-operation command